How to Keep Your Garden Room Cool this Summer

*This is a collaborative post on how to keep your garden room cool this summer

There are many aspects of summer to love, like the gorgeous warm weather, long evenings, and several bank holidays! When you have a garden room you can use it for many purposes in the summer months, including hosting friends and family, having your own personal gym, or creating a social space to enjoy. However, many people worry about how a garden room retains heat, especially in the summer months when many houses or garden rooms get too hot to stay in. At Hawksbeck Garden Rooms, there are several ways they design their bespoke garden rooms to keep them cool in the summer. 

Keep your garden room cool this summer with air conditioning

Firstly, you can have air conditioning units installed inside your garden room to help keep it cool in the summer months. No matter what you are using your garden room for, this can be useful all year round too! For those who have opted for a home gym, an air conditioning unit can help to keep your garden room temperate whilst you work out and exercise. There are several clever ways to hide your air conditioning unit in your room so that it does not stick out from your other furnishings.

Choose your glazing options wisely

Another easy way to keep your bespoke garden room cool is with your choice of glazing options. There are several different types of glazing you can choose from, with different sizes and positioning. You can choose to have wide sliding doors at the front of your garden room, or bifold doors that open to your garden space to create a cohesive flow from the inside to the outside. If you prefer something more discrete, you can have French patio doors or single panel doors. Depending on the type of garden room you choose, you can even have a porch outside your door for a cosy feeling and modern aesthetic! 

Keep your garden room cool by having a porch

A porch is a good way of controlling how much sunlight can enter your garden room too. With the slight overhang, the heat of the midday sun is held back from streaming straight into your garden room, which keeps it ever so slightly cooler in the heat of the day. Of course, with stunning glazed doors it only takes mere moments to open your garden room and let in a cool breeze in the midday sun. You can control the natural sunlight with window options too, with skylights on pitched roofs letting in lots of the midday sun. If you want cooler, less direct sunshine, you can opt for smaller side windows in individual rooms that allow in indirect sunlight.

There are many ways to keep your garden room cool in the summer months, with their high-quality design and materials they do not overheat like garden sheds or outbuildings. Of course, the insulation from the Structurally Insulated Panel’s ensures a high level of insulation which keeps a garden room warm in the winter and cool in the summer. A Hawksbeck Garden Room is a great investment all year, for whatever purpose you are using it for!